Thursday, 23 February 2012

Happiness? More like Schmappiness!

Beautiful, if not completely pointless and vapid opinion
piece by Ross Gittins (call me old school but when did an economist become an
expert on heppiness/ meaning of life?). The article is worth reading for the
opening paragraph alone:

“FED up with all the wrangling and
speculation over who should be leading the Labor Party? Want something more
substantial? How about the meaning of life?”

The article goes on to go nowhere in
particular, stating the meaning of life is to have “wellbeing”. And here I
thought the meaning of life was 42 (or 7, if you ask my good friend AW!).

Perhaps we should stop asking what the
meaning of our own life is, and start asking how we can act to give meaning to
other people’s lives? Be a little more giving and a little less egocentric? *shock horror* we might find that doing things for other people gives our own life meaning! Something economists, I'm sure, would find very foreign indeed!

All’s I know about life is you can’t take
money with you to the next one, so I’m hitting up the pub this afternoon!